Ramtin (Rami) Amin

DPhil student

Rami Amin is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, focusing on the use of experimental methods to explore political science research questions and themes. His thesis investigates the impact of visibility and transparency on democratic participation and civic behavior.

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Rami Amin is a doctoral candidate at the University of
Oxford, focusing on the use of experimental methods to explore political science research
questions and themes. His thesis investigates the impact of visibility and transparency on
democratic participation and civic behavior.

He holds an MPP from Harvard University, where he was
awarded the Policy and International Affairs Fellowship, as well as the Harvard Club Award. His
final year policy analysis essay for the Berkman Center
for Internet and Society - which explored strategies for citizen activism and political
mobilization - was nominated for top departmental honors. While at Harvard, he was an at-large
editor for the Kennedy School Review, a founding board member of the Digital Advisory Board, and
student chair of the faculty search committee. Rami also conducted research at Harvard Law School on statutory frameworks governing
online social media, and also worked as a research assistant at Harvard's Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics, and Public
Policy, where he explored innovative business models for collaboration between old and new
media.

Prior to entering Harvard, Rami was awarded the Public Policy and International Affairs
Fellowship at Princeton University, where he focused on
international relations and methods for public policy analysis.

Outside of academia, Rami was named a Google Public Policy Fellow in 2010, and collaborated
with the Citizen Lab to investigate Internet censorship and
information filtering through both a human rights paradigm and as an economic issue subject to
regulation and adjudication under international trade law.

Most recently, he has been conducting research on cyber warfare and international law for the
ECIR project, an interdisciplinary research team at MIT exploring the international relations and law of the cyber
domain.

Now at Oxford, Rami is the current Research Coordinator of the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute, which has a
mission to cultivate and support advanced research that requires contributions from multiple
disciplines across the university, and that has high potential impact, and may be radical or
speculative.

Research interests

Experimental methodology used to investigate political science research questions and themes, democratic participation, collective action, international law and governance, civic behavior, public policy